Question

    NABARD has launched an agroecology-based programme

    named ‘JIVA programme’. The objective of the programme is to promote ______________.
    A Commercial Farming Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Natural farming Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Plantation Farming Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Commercial mixed farming Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Dairy Farming Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has launched the ‘JIVA programme’. The objective is to promote natural farming under its existing watershed and wadi programmes in 11 states. To effectively implement the principles of agroecology long-term sustainability and transform the pre-existing social and natural capital towards efficient farming. It is an agroecology-based programme, an amalgamation of several projects under the watershed programme of NABARD and will be implemented in 11 states covering five agroecological zones, which are in ecologically fragile and rain-fed areas.

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